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The Biden Incident
By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON -- Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations?

And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Joe Biden was visiting, Jerusalem is a touchy subject, and you don't bring up touchy subjects that might embarrass an honored guest.

But it was no more than a gaffe. It was certainly not a policy change, let alone a betrayal. The neighborhood is in Jerusalem, and the 2009 Netanyahu-Obama agreement was for a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements excluding Jerusalem.

Nor was the offense intentional. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not know about this move -- step four in a seven-step approval process for construction that, at best, will not even start for two to three years.

Nonetheless the prime minister is responsible. He apologized to Biden for the embarrassment. When Biden left Israel on March 11, the apology appeared accepted and the issue resolved.

The next day, however, the administration went nuclear. After discussing with the president specific language she would use, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Netanyahu to deliver a hostile and highly aggressive 45-minute message that the Biden incident had created an unprecedented crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations.

Clinton's spokesman then publicly announced that Israel was now required to show in word and in deed its seriousness about peace.

Israel? Israelis have been looking for peace -- literally dying for peace -- since 1947, when they accepted the U.N. partition of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. (The Arabs refused and declared war. They lost.)

Israel made peace offers in 1967, 1978 and in the 1993 Oslo peace accords that Yasser Arafat tore up seven years later to launch a terror war that killed a thousand Israelis. Why, Clinton's own husband testifies to the remarkably courageous and visionary peace offer made in his presence by Ehud Barak (now Netanyahu's defense minister) at the 2000 Camp David talks. Arafat rejected it. In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered equally generous terms to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Refused again.

In these long and bloody 63 years, the Palestinians have not once accepted an Israeli offer of permanent peace, or ever countered with anything short of terms that would destroy Israel. They insist instead on a "peace process" -- now in its 17th post-Oslo year and still offering no credible Palestinian pledge of ultimate coexistence with a Jewish state -- the point of which is to extract pre-emptive Israeli concessions, such as a ban on Jewish construction in parts of Jerusalem conquered by Jordan in 1948, before negotiations for a real peace have even begun.

Under Obama, Netanyahu agreed to commit his center-right coalition to acceptance of a Palestinian state; took down dozens of anti-terror roadblocks and checkpoints to ease life for the Palestinians; assisted West Bank economic development to the point where its GDP is growing at an astounding 7 percent a year; and agreed to the West Bank construction moratorium, a concession that Secretary Clinton herself called "unprecedented."

What reciprocal gesture, let alone concession, has Abbas made during the Obama presidency? Not one.

Indeed, long before the Biden incident, Abbas refused even to resume direct negotiations with Israel. That's why the Obama administration has to resort to "proximity talks" -- a procedure that sets us back 35 years to before Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking visit to Jerusalem.

And Clinton demands that Israel show its seriousness about peace?

Now that's an insult.

So why this astonishing one-sidedness? Because Obama likes appeasing enemies while beating up on allies -- therefore Israel shouldn't take it personally (according to Robert Kagan)? Because Obama wants to bring down the current Israeli coalition government (according to Jeffrey Goldberg)?

Or is it because Obama fancies himself the historic redeemer whose irresistible charisma will heal the breach between Christianity and Islam or, if you will, between the post-imperial West and the Muslim world -- and has little patience for this pesky Jewish state that brazenly insists on its right to exist, and even more brazenly on permitting Jews to live in its own ancient, historical and now present capital?

Who knows? Perhaps we should ask those Obama acolytes who assured the 63 percent of Americans who support Israel - at least 97 percent of those supporters, mind you, are non-Jews -- about candidate Obama's abiding commitment to Israel.
The Biden Incident
By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON -- Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations?

And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Joe Biden was visiting, Jerusalem is a touchy subject, and you don't bring up touchy subjects that might embarrass an honored guest.

But it was no more than a gaffe. It was certainly not a policy change, let alone a betrayal. The neighborhood is in Jerusalem, and the 2009 Netanyahu-Obama agreement was for a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements excluding Jerusalem.

Nor was the offense intentional. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not know about this move -- step four in a seven-step approval process for construction that, at best, will not even start for two to three years.

Nonetheless the prime minister is responsible. He apologized to Biden for the embarrassment. When Biden left Israel on March 11, the apology appeared accepted and the issue resolved.

The next day, however, the administration went nuclear. After discussing with the president specific language she would use, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Netanyahu to deliver a hostile and highly aggressive 45-minute message that the Biden incident had created an unprecedented crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations.

Clinton's spokesman then publicly announced that Israel was now required to show in word and in deed its seriousness about peace.

Israel? Israelis have been looking for peace -- literally dying for peace -- since 1947, when they accepted the U.N. partition of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. (The Arabs refused and declared war. They lost.)

Israel made peace offers in 1967, 1978 and in the 1993 Oslo peace accords that Yasser Arafat tore up seven years later to launch a terror war that killed a thousand Israelis. Why, Clinton's own husband testifies to the remarkably courageous and visionary peace offer made in his presence by Ehud Barak (now Netanyahu's defense minister) at the 2000 Camp David talks. Arafat rejected it. In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered equally generous terms to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Refused again.

In these long and bloody 63 years, the Palestinians have not once accepted an Israeli offer of permanent peace, or ever countered with anything short of terms that would destroy Israel. They insist instead on a "peace process" -- now in its 17th post-Oslo year and still offering no credible Palestinian pledge of ultimate coexistence with a Jewish state -- the point of which is to extract pre-emptive Israeli concessions, such as a ban on Jewish construction in parts of Jerusalem conquered by Jordan in 1948, before negotiations for a real peace have even begun.

Under Obama, Netanyahu agreed to commit his center-right coalition to acceptance of a Palestinian state; took down dozens of anti-terror roadblocks and checkpoints to ease life for the Palestinians; assisted West Bank economic development to the point where its GDP is growing at an astounding 7 percent a year; and agreed to the West Bank construction moratorium, a concession that Secretary Clinton herself called "unprecedented."

What reciprocal gesture, let alone concession, has Abbas made during the Obama presidency? Not one.

Indeed, long before the Biden incident, Abbas refused even to resume direct negotiations with Israel. That's why the Obama administration has to resort to "proximity talks" -- a procedure that sets us back 35 years to before Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking visit to Jerusalem.

And Clinton demands that Israel show its seriousness about peace?

Now that's an insult.

So why this astonishing one-sidedness? Because Obama likes appeasing enemies while beating up on allies -- therefore Israel shouldn't take it personally (according to Robert Kagan)? Because Obama wants to bring down the current Israeli coalition government (according to Jeffrey Goldberg)?

Or is it because Obama fancies himself the historic redeemer whose irresistible charisma will heal the breach between Christianity and Islam or, if you will, between the post-imperial West and the Muslim world -- and has little patience for this pesky Jewish state that brazenly insists on its right to exist, and even more brazenly on permitting Jews to live in its own ancient, historical and now present capital?

Who knows? Perhaps we should ask those Obama acolytes who assured the 63 percent of Americans who support Israel - at least 97 percent of those supporters, mind you, are non-Jews -- about candidate Obama's abiding commitment to Israel

Skrevet af slettet bruger 75 694 dage siden - Direkte link
"Israel? Israelis have been looking for peace -- literally dying for peace -- since 1947, when they accepted the U.N. partition of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. (The Arabs refused and declared war. They lost.)

Israel made peace offers in 1967, 1978 and in the 1993 Oslo peace accords that Yasser Arafat tore up seven years later to launch a terror war that killed a thousand Israelis. Why, Clinton's own husband testifies to the remarkably courageous and visionary peace offer made in his presence by Ehud Barak (now Netanyahu's defense minister) at the 2000 Camp David talks. Arafat rejected it. In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered equally generous terms to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Refused again."

Jeg tror ikke Krauthammer lyver. Jeg tror at han ikke kender tilstrækkeligt til baggrunden for det, han udtaler sig om. Ovenstående 'historiske gennemgang' er i hvert fald helt hen i vejret.

Skrevet af kaarelind 694 dage siden - Direkte link
Jeg forstår hvorfor debatten skal være så følelsesladet.

Hvis vi antager at Israel tager alt landet vil de jødiske israelere komme i undertal i deres eget land, idet palæstinenserne får flere børn.

Så hvis israeler vil have alt landet bliver de nødt til at fjerne alle palæstinenserne. Hvilket vel konflikter med den særlige jødiske medmenneskelighed som man er så stolt af.

Derrmed er der vel ikke noget alternativ til at palæstinenserne får deres egen stat. Spørgsmålet er bare hvor grænserne skal gå og hvornår.

Resten er sang og musik.



Skrevet af kaarelind 694 dage siden - Direkte link
Rettelse: 

Der skal stå:

Jeg forstår ikke hvorfor debatten skal være så følelsesladet.

i første linie.

Skrevet af Kimpo 694 dage siden - Direkte link
Jerusalem er en jødisk by mere end det er en muhammedansk. Muhammedanerne har Mekka og Medina. Hvorfor skal de også have Jerusalem og Bethlehem? Og hvorfor er vesterlændinge så skvattede, at de forærer disse centrale symboler for henholdsvis jødedommen og kristendommen væk til islam, som alliigevel blot fortsætter deres amokløb mod verdensherredømme?

Musserne må helt ud af de gamle bibelske områder. Der er rigelig plads i de arabiske lande.

Skrevet af slettet bruger 75 694 dage siden - Direkte link
Definitionen på en psykopat: En person der ikke har medfølelse og empati for andre mennesker.

Skrevet af Kimpo 694 dage siden - Direkte link
Jeg synes din generalisering af verdens muslimer er for grov.

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Det er dig, Kimpo, der er psykopaten, som ikke lader Stalin og Hitler meget tilbage når det gælder om at varetage 'kollektivets interesser' på bekostning af individet. Stod det til mig, så var den slags uforblommede opfordringer til etniske udrensninger strafbare.

Skrevet af Kimpo 694 dage siden - Direkte link
Etniske udrensninger? Hvad mener du helt præcist med etniske udrensninger?

Er det måden at debattere på, når man ikke har argumenter?

Jeg debatterer grænser og folkevandringer. Det er mildest talt god latin i disse tider, og så kommer du og beskylder mig for - ja, hvad egentlig?

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Lad nu være med dine manipulationer. Det klæ'r dig ikke. Du skriver utvetydigt:
Musserne må helt ud af de gamle bibelske områder. Der er rigelig plads i de arabiske lande.

Skrevet af Kimpo 694 dage siden - Direkte link
Det er dig som taler om psykopati, sådan helt ud af den blå luft?


Hvorfor gør du det?

Er det fordi du tillægger mig hensigten at dræbe i tusindevis af mennesker?

Ellers må du forklare, hvorfor det er psykopatisk (nazistisk forstås) at ville flytte folk fra et område til et andet, hvor der er bedre plads. Det er ganske givet ikke liberalt, men er det virkelig psykopatisk?

Og Raapil, hvorfor afsporer du egentlig debatten ved at starte en sag om min moral? Hvorfor holder du dig ikke til emnet?

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Jeg tillægger dig ikke hensigten at dræbe tusinder af mennesker (selvom det er en logisk følge af etniske udrensninger), og jeg tillægger dig ikke nazisme (ikke bare nazister har gennemført etniske udrensninger, men også serbere, jøder, arabere, tyrkere mv.).

Det er psykopatisk at propagandere for etniske udrensninger, da de mennesker disse etniske udrensninger går ud over, sjældent er enige i forehavendet. Hvorfor de ikke er det, kan du jo spørge dig selv om: Ville du juble og danse, hvis 'musserne' kom for at smide dig og din familie ud af din by? Fjerne dig fra hus, hjem og livsgrundlag?

Det er psykopatien, Kimpo: at man gerne gør mod andre, hvad man ikke ønsker de skal gøre mod én selv. Vold og tvang gør lige så ondt på en araber som på dig.

Skrevet af Kimpo 692 dage siden - Direkte link
Fantastisk dobbelttale. Du vil tydeligvis ikke tage ansvar for at tillægge mig den onde hensigt. Man må forstå, at jeg er for dum til at gennemtænke den morderiske konsekvens. Og i forlængelse af dette kommer pædagogen op i dig: Jeg er et tungnemt barn, der ikke kan sætte sig i andre menneskers sted. Alligevel beskrives jeg med ordet "psykopat", hvilket klinisk set passer til det tungnemme afstumpede barn, men i læsernes øjne naturligvis også tildeler mig ansvaret for de onde konsekvenser. Således har du udført dit beskidte arbejde med at stemple mig som kvasinazist uden at få smuds på ærmerne. Gøbbels' disciple har sandelig forfinet kunsten.


For nu at komme tættere på emnet:
Det her handler ikke om min moral, Raapil, men om min bedømmelse af situationen. Politik handler for mig og andre ganske ofte om "det mindre onde", og jeg mener det er et mindre onde at adskille folk der vil slås til døden end at lade kimen til den evige borgerkrig og evt. kommende storkrig vokse. Der er simpelthen for mange jødehadere indenfor Israels grænser til at det kan gå godt. De forsvinder ikke selv, eftersom deres mål er at kyle jøderne ud af deres land, og af samme grund bliver de aldrig fredelige israelske borgere. Og se på et landkort: Israel er på størrelsemed Jylland. Syrien og Jordan derimod...

Skrevet af slettet bruger 75 692 dage siden - Direkte link
Du mener selv, at du ønsker at gøre det bedste for samfundet, og derfor kan man ikke beskylde dig for ondskab. Som du selv skriver, så mener du det er et spørgsmål om valg mellem mindre og større onder, og det er for så vidt et fair synspunkt.

Alligevel er det psykopatisk ikke at have medfølelse med andre mennesker og manipulere med deres tilværelse. Det er stort set definitionen på psykopati, men det betyder ikke at du lider af en personlig psykopati. Den er politisk motiveret og social - du deler den med mange andre.

Du sætter dig op som dommer over hvad der er større og mindre lidelser, men så vidt jeg ved er der kun én instans, der sidder inde med endelige opgørelser over den menneskelige lidelse.

Du ved simpelthen ikke, hvad der fører til større og mindre lidelser, og det er svært at tro på andet, end at du dybest set er ligeglad. Dit tilsyneladende objektive 'mindre onde' er egentlig 'vores mindre onde', og vores mindre onde kerer sig ikke om de folk der bliver tvangsflyttet, palæstinenserne. Andre vil uden tvivl kunne nå frem til, at det er 'et mindre onde' at tvangsflytte jøderne, men selv tør jeg overhovedet ikke dømme den slags.

At tvangsflytte mennnesker er et overgreb på deres liv, der kun er få grader mindre slemt end folkemord. Der er altså god grund til at overveje alle andre løsninger, herunder den indlysende at Israel omdannes til et ægte demokrati med lige pligter og rettigheder for alle borgere.

Når du mener at palæstinenserne skal smides ud af Storisrael, så kunne det hænge sammen med, at 'musserne' er din og zionisternes fælles fjende, og at det vil skabe en fin præcedens hvis det lykkes de rabiate af zionisterne at udrense Storisrael. Det er spekulation fra min side, men du skal ikke komme og bilde mig ind, at du antager en objektiv holdning, når du vover at gøre dig selv til Gud og vurdere hvad større og mindre onder er.
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